OpenStreetMap

The free wiki world mapPeter Batty

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December 3, 2007

July 7, 2009

Google OpenStreetMap

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Cape RoyalGrand Canyon, AZ

USACropston

England

Denver, COUSA

Denver, COUSA

“Mousetrap” junction of I-25 and I-70

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January 31, 2009

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Haiti - January 12, 2010

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Haiti - January 14, 2010

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Haiti - January 26, 2010

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Damage Assessment

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I am currently in Port Au Prince with the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team (USA-1) out of Fairfax, VA, USA. I wish there was a way that I can express to you properly how important your OSM files were to us.

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Currently ~260,000 registered users

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What about quality?

“OSM quality is beyond good enough, it is a product that can be used for a wide range of activities”

Dr Muki Haklay of UCL

Based on a detailed analysishttp://tinyurl.com/mukiosm

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2007 dataDatabase

69 countries11m miles (18m km) of roads18m points of interest

PeopleField force 700Central production 270Technology 500Total 3349

Financial Revenue $853m (~€604m) Data creation & distribution costs $396m (~€280m)

“Creating, maintaining and delivering a comprehensive, high quality map database is a

multi-step, labor-intensive process. We currently employ over 270 employees in our centralized production facility and a global

workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in 32 countries”

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Crowdsourcing is a paradigm shift for data creationflickr.com/photos/jamescridland/613445810/

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Why bother?

It’s fun!!Map what you want

It’s usefulFaster corrections

It’s free!!Access to vector dataDownload to mobile devices

As a developerAs a mapper / user

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Video at http://vimeo.com/2598878

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Backup

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